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- Amid Chinese Flu Fears, Mandalay Goes Without Masks While Dealers Make Profits
- KNU Denies Targeting Myanmar Military Officer Killed in Mine Blast
- Myanmar’s Karen Education Group Sounds Alarm Over Sharp Cut to Funding
- Beats and Breaks in Burma: Myanmar’s Biggest Dance Crew
- Myanmar Parliamentary Committee Chairman Says Members Returned Cash Gifts to Mining Company
- A Tale of 3 Myanmar Political Assassination Plots
- Myanmar ‘On Waiting List’ to Evacuate Students From Virus-Hit Wuhan
- Japan Scrambles to Contain Coronavirus as Evacuees Return
- US Evacuees From Virus-Hit Wuhan Quarantined at California Air Base
- The Day Author and Traveler Somerset Maugham Revisited Myanmar
| Amid Chinese Flu Fears, Mandalay Goes Without Masks While Dealers Make Profits Posted: 30 Jan 2020 06:34 AM PST  Face-mask supplies are running low in Mandalay, although pharmacies say dealers are buying them in the hope of selling them on later for profit. |
| KNU Denies Targeting Myanmar Military Officer Killed in Mine Blast Posted: 30 Jan 2020 06:22 AM PST  The KNU has rejected the military's claim it deliberately targeted a battalion commander killed while providing security for a road project the ethnic group opposes. |
| Myanmar’s Karen Education Group Sounds Alarm Over Sharp Cut to Funding Posted: 30 Jan 2020 05:59 AM PST  The Karen Teacher Working Group says a key donor will cut 80% of its funding for the Karen education system, putting over 1,500 Karen schools at risk of losing teachers. |
| Beats and Breaks in Burma: Myanmar’s Biggest Dance Crew Posted: 30 Jan 2020 05:18 AM PST  After winning 'Myanmar's Got Talent', Junior Creative dance crew took to the 'America's Got Talent' stage and will soon compete in Asia's version of the competition. |
| Myanmar Parliamentary Committee Chairman Says Members Returned Cash Gifts to Mining Company Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:42 AM PST  Members of an Upper House committee did not realize gifts they received from a mining company included cash, the panel's chairman said after bribe accusations. |
| A Tale of 3 Myanmar Political Assassination Plots Posted: 30 Jan 2020 01:56 AM PST  Three years after the murder of prominent NLD lawyer U Ko Ni, The Irrawaddy revisits a 2019 commentary on the history of political assassinations in modern Myanmar. |
| Myanmar ‘On Waiting List’ to Evacuate Students From Virus-Hit Wuhan Posted: 29 Jan 2020 11:26 PM PST  The government said plans are in place to evacuate and conduct health checks on 63 Myanmar students in virus-hit Wuhan, China, pending approval from Chinese authorities. |
| Japan Scrambles to Contain Coronavirus as Evacuees Return Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:40 PM PST  Japan has confirmed eight coronavirus infections and is scrambling to implement containment measures as more than 200 evacuees return from China. |
| US Evacuees From Virus-Hit Wuhan Quarantined at California Air Base Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:25 PM PST  The US State Department has airlifted nearly 200 Americans from virus-hit Wuhan, China to a California air base, where they will be observed for 72 hours. |
| The Day Author and Traveler Somerset Maugham Revisited Myanmar Posted: 29 Jan 2020 05:30 PM PST  On this day in 1960, the 86-year-old British author W. Somerset Maugham visited Yangon to recount stories of his 1923 exploration of the country during colonial rule. |
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